{"id":133,"date":"2021-10-01T21:50:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T11:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?page_id=133"},"modified":"2021-10-01T22:19:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T12:19:44","slug":"wel-national-conference","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?page_id=133","title":{"rendered":"WEL National Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Anne Hall, Convenor of WEL Victoria reports on the discussion at the WEL National Conference held in Perth on 16 to 18 April<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Women at the WEL National Conference listened to Western Australians, Christina Gillgren, founder and co-convenor of Women for Constitutional Reform and Janice Dudley, lecturer at Murdoch University in politics, public policy and international studies, give an impassioned presentation on the Constitution and constitutional reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Janice Dudley covered the history of the Constitution and the background to women\u2019s suffrage. Christina Gillgren discussed the issues of citizenship and empowerment related to the Constitution finishing with a discussion on the need for a Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later in the day, women attended a workshop which focussed on the Preamble and the republic referendum. They issued a statement which endorsed a NO vote for the preamble unless changes were made which explicitly stated women\u2019s equality with men and recognised Indigenous peoples original occupancy and\/or ownership of the land in a matter endorsed by Indigenous people themselves. This statement was later ratified by all the conference delegates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christina Gillgren was persuasive in her arguments for a YES vote for the model of the Republic to be proposed at the referendum. Although she had majority support, this was not included in the final statement from the conference.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Hall, Convenor of WEL Victoria reports on the discussion at the WEL National Conference held in Perth on 16 to 18 April &#8220;Women at the WEL National Conference listened to Western Australians, Christina Gillgren, founder and co-convenor of Women&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":142,"menu_order":22,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-133","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/133\/revisions\/134"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}